230 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
dwelling-site, many contiguous fields having scattered over them fragments of 
stone, flint in the main, and some knives, lancepoints, and arrowheads, of flint, 
broken and whole. Three points selected from others gathered at this place 
are shown in Fig. 23, one of which, having been broken on one side, has been 
worked over to give the broken margin an edge. Мо rise was apparent in any 
of the fields, and the level ground seemed no longer to be midden debris, which 
presumably has washed away, leaving on the present surface what had been on 
it and in it. 
Fra. 23.—Points of flint. Site near Pickwick Landing (near Sulphur Creek), Tenn. (Full size.) 
MOUND NEAR Bovp's LANDING, HARDIN County, TENNESSEE. 
In sight from the river bank when foliage does not intervene, about one-quarter 
mile in a northerly direction from Boyd’s Landing, in woods forming part of the 
property of Mr. J. H. Lakey, living about one mile farther back from the river, 
is a mound 7 feet in height. Тһе mound has been washed away to some extent, 
or dug into considerably, years ago. At all events, part of its northern side is 
missing, so that what probably was once a circular base with a diameter of 70 
feet, has that dimension now only through its E. and W. parts. There was almost 
no summit-plateau, and the mound, judging from its shape, might well have been 
erected for burial purposes. 
From the summit of the mound a hole 11 by 6.5 feet was carried to a depth of 
7 feet 9 inches, reaching a dark band marking the original surface, 7 feet 7 inches 
down. From the base of this excavation five holes were dug, one in the center 
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